Meandering in the stacks . . .

"A world technology means either a world government or world suicide." - Max Lerner

"Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts." - Max Lerner

"Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there." - Max Lerner

"The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search." - Max Lerner